Job Overview

Senior Biostatistician

*These remote opportunities can be done from anywhere in the U.S. or Canada

Are you ready to discover your extraordinarypotential at Covance? A career here provides the unique chance to create a lasting impact and difference in patients’ lives. Joining our team will offer you a rewarding career, an opportunity to work in a high-energy, innovative & collaborative work place, along with access to comprehensive benefits. Your work is meaningful, and the results are lasting. With the support of exceptionalpeople from across the globe and an energizedpurpose, you’ll be empowered to own your career journey with mentoring, training and personalized development planning. Our mission is to help our clients bring the miracles of medicine to market sooner -- join us for your next career move.

We are seeking Senior Biostatisticians to lead large global or other major projects, analyze all parts of any clinical study, and provide planning on multiple clinical studies from multiple clients including tracking project activities and project time management. The selected candidate will provide statistical input into other disciplines’ activities and participate in interdepartmental processes; provide technical solutions and advice to staff and clients on statistical processes; supervise and train less experienced biostatisticians within project activities; and be responsible for the development of Statistical Analysis Plans including statistical methodology, statistical programming procedures, definition of derived variables, and data handling rules and mockups.

Additional responsibilities include:

Ensure mechanisms in place to maintain flow of appropriate information between disciplines on project team.

Responsible for development of Statistical Analysis Plans, to include statistical methodology, statistical programming procedures, definition of derived variables, data-handling rules and mockups.

Responsible for statistical input to statistical reports and Clinical Study Reports. Authorizes final reports as one of Covance signatories.

Provide statistical guidance in development of clinical research program and in design of individual studies as part of multi-disciplinary team; responsible for statistical input to protocol; approves protocol as signatory.

Determine documentation requirements for Biostatistics aspects of projects. Give guidance to support business and regulatory requirements including definition of appropriate documentation, storage/communication media, and retention/return of documents at study close-out.

Carry out all activities according to appropriate Covance SOPs, working within the framework of the Quality Management System and to GCP.

Perform other duties as requested by management.

Education/Qualifications

MA or MS in statistics subject, preferably with a strong medical statistics component.

3 to 5 years of postgraduate experience in the application of statistics to clinical trials foremployees with a PhD in statistics subject; 5 to 8 years of postgraduate experience in the application of statistics to clinical trials for employees with an MA/MS in statistics subject

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Covance, the drug development business of LabCorp, is recognized as a leader in drug development because of our exceptional people. At Covance, we embrace and celebrate the different strengths, experiences and perspectives of our 20,000+ team members across the globe. Our team is driven by an energizing purpose to improve health and improve lives. Here, you can play a role in bringing new scientific discoveries to life and make a difference in the lives of millions. And, with our comprehensive service portfolio, you’ll have the opportunity to explore diverse projects and unique career paths across the drug development spectrum. Join us and discover your extraordinary potential.